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Grammar Spotter

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Every word in a sentence has a job. Knowing those jobs is what grammar questions test. Here are the five you need.

🏔️NOUN
A person, place or thing.
The mountain trembled.
⚡VERB
An action or state of being.
She sprinted to the door.
🎨ADJECTIVE
A word that describes a noun.
The ancient map was torn.
🚀ADVERB
Modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.
He spoke extremely quietly.
👤PRONOUN
Replaces a noun (I, she, they, it…).
She found it in the bag.
Introduction

Five classes, one rule each

In the 11+ exam you need to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns quickly. The key question for each: what job is this word doing in the sentence?

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About the Grammar Spotter lesson

Many 11+ English questions rely on knowing what job a word does in a sentence. In this lesson your child taps words and chooses their class: noun, verb, adjective, adverb or pronoun. The lesson starts with one class at a time, then mixes them.

It also shows why the same word can change class. The key question to ask is not what the word is, but what job it does in this sentence. That habit helps with grammar questions and with cloze passages.

Worked example

Question: In the sentence "The ancient door creaked open", which words are the noun, the adjective and the verb?

Answer: Door is the noun, ancient is the adjective describing it, and creaked is the verb. The same word can change class: walk is a verb in "They walk to school" but a noun in "We went for a walk".

Who it suits

This lesson suits children aged 8 to 11 who know the word-class names but hesitate when they have to pick them out quickly, especially in timed practice.

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